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Refugee Law Reader Conference on Asylum and Refugee Law Education in Europe
The project “Knowledge-based harmonisation of European asylum practices”, coordinated by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, held its closing conference in Budapest on 8-9 December 2011.
Statement on the Hungarian-Slovakian dual citizenship issue
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee finds the case of ethnic Hungarians from Slovakia losing their citizenship due to obtaining Hungarian citizenship astonishing and absurd. As a consequence of the bad neighbourly relations between the two countries, … Read more
Migrants in the Media
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee’s study examines the negative stereotypes in the Hungarian media related to the topics of migration and refugees. The research was based on 300 articles collected and evaluated in 2011.
Serbia as a Safe Third Country: A Wrong Presumption
Hungary refuses to examine on the merits asylum claims of asylum-seekers arriving in Hungary through Serbia, based on the wrong presumption that Serbia is able and willing to provide protection to these persons. This practice is in breach of Article 3 and 13 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
Strasbourg Human Rights Court rules Hungary held asylum-seekers in detention unlawfully
The European Court of Human Rights found that two Ivorian asylum-seekers, represented by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, had been held in immigration detention unlawfully for 5 months. Hungary must pay 10 000 EUR to each applicant for damages. The Court’s judgment highlights systemic problems concerning the detention of asylum-seekers in immigration jails in Hungary.
UN Committee Against Torture (CAT)
Documents related to the Fourth Periodic Report of Hungary
Activities relating to statelessness
Since 2006, the HHC has taken the lead on promoting the rights of stateless persons among non-governmental organisations at a European level.
International Asylum Law Moot Court Competition
The Moot Court is based on a fictional case and is entirely conducted in English language.
Country Information (COI) Network
Country information (COI) constitutes the main, and often the only available factual evidence in refugee status determination.
HHC helps to stop deportation of Senegalese father of two Hungarian children
Bouba can stay together with his two daughters and wife.
Report on the Border Monitoring in 2008-2009 (2010)
The second tripartite report on the border monitoring project that is internationally considered as a best example for the cooperation between state authorities and non-state actors.
Statelessness in Hungary
Having a nationality is like the air to breathe. One takes it for granted and only realises its importance when it is missing. Currently, there are at least 12 million stateless persons in the world.
Stop Dublin transfers to Greece
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee calls on the Hungarian government and the competent asylum authority, the Office of Immigration and Nationality to follow the example of Belgium, Iceland, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, and the UK and stop Dublin transfers to Greece.
Best practices of voluntary return – Guidelines
In the framework of its 2010 project entitled “Return in a lawful and humane manner” the Hungarian Helsinki Committee conducted a research on best practices of voluntary return and reintegration of failed asylum seekers or other groups of migrants.
Buffeted in the Borderland – the treatment of asylum seekers and migrants in Ukraine, a report of the Human Rights Watch
The latest report of the Human Rights Watch is based on interviews with 161 refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers in Ukraine, Slovakia, and Hungary.
ECRE Survey on Legal Aid for Asylum Seekers in Europe
ECRE together with the European Legal Network on Asylum (ELENA) published a comparative survey that provides an overview of the provision of legal aid for asylum seekers in 19 countries across Europe.
NGOs oppose the immigration detention of children
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee, the Hungarian Red Cross and Menedék – the Hungarian Association for Migrants epxress their deepest concerns regarding the immigration detention of children.
HHC opinion on draft bill to amend migration laws
Supreme Court: persons with subsidiary protection have the same right to family reunification as refugees